Comments for ZX81.org.uk

Comment on Why you need a crash reporter by Stephen Darlington

Stephen Darlington — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:43:18 +0000

Interesting. Is their library open source? Couldn’t tell from their website.

Personally I’m reluctant to add dependencies that I have no control over, but integrating feedback/bug reporting/crash reporting is a neat idea.

Comment on Why you need a crash reporter by Leonardo

Leonardo — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:23:55 +0000

You should also check out Crittercism – I’ve been using them for my crash reporting and gathering user feedback. They handle the server-side also.

Comment on RIP SPJ by Spencer MacDonald

Spencer MacDonald — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:05:46 +0000

Like you said. the Stanford Commencement address is well worth a listen (or a read), even if you have heard it before. Also proves whatever your start in life, you can change the world.

Comment on iPhone Dev: Saving State by Stephen Darlington

Stephen Darlington — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:24:43 +0000

Yes, the ZX81 refers to the Sinclair computer. Here’s a longer answer: http://www.zx81.org.uk/about

Comment on iPhone Dev: Saving State by Simon King

Simon King — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:45:14 +0000

Thanks for the reply, although I store lots of data in my view controllers it’s always persisted to a sqlite db and saved immediately after every change so I should be fine.

I’m going to ignore any modal controllers and just persist the pushed view controllers on the stack.

This is the last thing to do for my first app so hopefully I can get that done out of the way now. Although for future apps I’ll build it in straight away.

Cheers
Simon

PS is the reference to the ZX 81 Sinclairs first home computer? I had the Acorn Atom then moved to the ZX Spectrum.

Comment on iPhone Dev: Saving State by Stephen Darlington

Stephen Darlington — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:20:33 +0000

Yes, I use NSUserDefaults. Though the answer really is “whatever is easiest.” I know some people store lots and lots of data in UIViewControllers (not good practice I’d argue). In this case I’d recommend something other than NSUserDefaults.

Comment on iPhone Dev: Saving State by Simon King

Simon King — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:44:26 +0000

I found the above very useful, the only thing that seems to be missing is where you’re storing the screenList when the app terminates or where it comes from when the app is launched again.

Are you using NSUserDefaults to serialise and save state or are you using a custom mechanism?

Other than that thanks for a very useful blog entry.

Regards
Simon

Comment on iOS Developer Program: from individual to company by Christopher Pickslay

Christopher Pickslay — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:37:31 +0000

My experience was similar. Though I’ve found that if you’re proactive and call them while things are processing, they often can move you through the process right on the phone.

Comment on Oracle 8i for Linux Installation HOWTO by Stephen Darlington

Stephen Darlington — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:01:39 +0000

I’m afraid I don’t know. Why are you trying to install something so old?

Comment on Oracle 8i for Linux Installation HOWTO by Pedro Alvarenga

Pedro Alvarenga — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:25:28 +0000

Wonderful article.
I want to install Linux in a Red Hat 8 fresh installed VM. Do you know where I can find the Oracle 8i or the Oracle 9i client for Linux? Thanks!